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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806288403321

Autore

Morgan Michael L. <1944-, >

Titolo

Levinas's Ethical Politics / / Michael L. Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, [Indiana] ; ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : , : Indiana University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-253-02118-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Collana

The Helen and Martin Schwartz lectures in Jewish studies

Disciplina

172.092

Soggetti

Political ethics

Political science - Philosophy

Ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Overview -- Tears the civil servant cannot see: ethics and politics -- Judaism, Zionism, and the state of Israel -- Philosophical articulation -- The third party: transcendental ethics and realistic politics -- Ethics as critique -- Responsibility for others and the discourse of rights -- Liberalism and democracy -- Ethics, politics, and Zionism -- Teaching prophetic politics: ethics and politics in Levinas's Talmudic lessons -- Zionism and the justification of a Jewish state -- Ethics, politics, and Messianism -- Levinas's notorious interview -- Defense -- Levinas and his critics.

Sommario/riassunto

Morgan reveals Levinas's political commitments to liberalism and democracy as well as his revolutionary conception of human life as deeply interconnected on philosophical, political, and religious grounds.